How women rode the bicycle into the future [SLIDESHOW]

Photo: (c) Beth Emery CollectionHarper’s Weekly, a newspaper that pioneered the use of illustrations alongside text, featured this image of female velocipede racers in Paris in its Dec. 19, 1868, edition. “Success in life depends as much upon a vigorous and healthy body as upon a clear and active mind,” said American racer Elsa von Blumen in 1881.